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The Hughes brothers’ uncompromising vision of life on the streets of Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood sent shockwaves through the American indie film scene of the early 1990s.
After directing videos for artists including Tupac Shakur and Tone Loc, Albert and Allen Hughes rocked both the hip-hop and filmmaking worlds with the debut of their stylish first feature film. Small-time dealer Caine (Tyrin Turner) thinks he might want out of the gang life of Watts. As a kid he watched his mother overdose and his father kill a man, and he was present when his friend O-Dog (Larenz Tate) killed a store clerk. But despite some positive influences in his life, he is pulled deeper and deeper into a world of violence and hopelessness. Also with Jada Pinkett Smith and Samuel L. Jackson. (97 mins., 35mm)
See the complete Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair lineup.
IMAGE CAPTIONMenace II Society, courtesy of Park Circus.
Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque.
Rohauer Collection Foundation
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
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Every Page Foundation
Mellon Foundation
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Michael and Anita Goldberg
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